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Hav­ing white tigers on dis­play in zoos – an appalling logic?

Zoos’ mis­sion The mis­sion of mod­ern zoo­log­i­cal gar­dens (zoos) is, or should be, focussed on main­tain­ing global bio­di­ver­sity – pre­vent extinc­tion of endan­gered species – using var­i­ous instru­ments. Con­ser­va­tion of wild fauna and flora is one of them. This is done via efforts with their ani­mal col­lec­tions and endan­gered species breed­ing pro­grammes, and ulti­mately return­ing cap­tive bred indi­vid­u­als into the wild. Addi­tion­ally, is being applied by financ­ing and exe­cut­ing con­ser­va­tion efforts in the f…

Tiger Tem­ple man­age­ment shows the worst of bud­dhist monks

Tigers are being exploited by bud­dhist monks in Thai­land, which proves that these monks have sim­i­lar desires as the com­mon man, one of them: being inde­pen­dent from char­ity. Unfor­tu­nately, they use decep­tion and abuse tigers to achieve this inde­pen­dency. It has been a while since I first read about the Tiger Tem­ple and its busi­ness. I couldn’t believe what I read and I was aston­ished by the video footage avail­able on the web. Until then, the relaxed atti­tude of bud­dhists towards life and their de…

Two major tiger con­ser­va­tion organ­i­sa­tions join forces

Infor­ma­tion

1970 hit(s) | tiger, con­ser­va­tion, NGO

I would like to con­grat­u­late Pan­thera and Save the Tiger Fund with their swift response to my request (see my blog of 29.05.2011). They joined forces in their activ­i­ties which focus on tiger con­ser­va­tion. When you read their argu­ments in the press release of 7 July 2011, there is only one thing I can say: I could not have said it any bet­ter. And per­son­ally I think this should be rewarded. There­fore, in addi­tion to my own dona­tion I would like to call upon any­one who sup­ports the idea of tiger co…

In April this year, 2011, we were pleas­antly sur­prised by a plan that was launched by the Kaza­khstan gov­ern­ment to rein­tro­duce wild tigers in part of the coun­try where the species went extinct in the last cen­tury. A unique tiger nature reserve will be estab­lished, accord­ing Prime Min­is­ter Masi­mov, in the south­ern part of the Lake Balkhash area, the orig­i­nal habi­tat of the Turan tiger, or Caspian tiger (Pan­thera tigris vir­gata). The Caspian tiger, which once ranged through­out the humid forests, m…